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Nigerian profitable food delivery Chowdeck lands $9M from Novastar, Y Combinator

Chowdeck, a Lagos-based food delivery startup that has stayed profitable in a notoriously tough and low-margin market, has raised $9 million in Series A funding to launch a quick commerce strategy and expand into more cities in Nigeria and Ghana. … Continue reading

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Security flaws in a carmaker’s web portal let one hacker remotely unlock cars from anywhere

Security researcher Eaton Zveare told TechCrunch that the flaws he discovered in the carmaker’s centralized dealer portal exposed vast access to customer and vehicle data. With this access, Zveare said he could remotely take over a customer’s account and unlock … Continue reading

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Why investors just bet $85M on this Indian company’s generic drug strategy

Truemeds has taken a different route from other Indian online pharmacies — and it has helped the startup double its revenue.

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The hidden cost of living amid Mark Zuckerberg’s $110M compound

Mark Zuckerberg has spent 14 years gobbling up his leafy Palo Alto neighborhood, according to a New York Times report detailing how the Meta CEO has purchased 11 properties for over $110 million to create his own personal fiefdom in … Continue reading

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The computer science dream has become a nightmare

Well, the coding-equals-prosperity promise has officially collapsed. Fresh computer science graduates are facing unemployment rates of 6.1% to 7.5% — more than double what biology and art history majors are experiencing, according to a recent Federal Reserve Bank of New … Continue reading

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Stanford sticks with legacy admissions

Stanford University has confirmed its admissions policies for fall 2026 will continue considering legacy status, a decision that could influence access to one of Silicon Valley’s most important talent pipelines. Stanford is also ending its test-optional policy, requiring SAT or … Continue reading

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After researchers unmasked a prolific SMS scammer, a new operation has emerged in its wake

Security researchers are now sounding the alarm on a new SMS text message fraud operation, which is surging in popularity — and its ability to steal people’s credit cards — since the demise of its predecessor.

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Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. We’ve discovered that scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they … Continue reading

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Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model.

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RIP, Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI

Microsoft is killing Lens, a handy mobile scanning app with over 90 million downloads.

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